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A wide choice of topics covered from the dawn of history right up to present days . Many of these have a wider relevance than purely within the context of Strathearn . The author's viewpoint often is at variance with the accepted opinions espoused elsewhere eg The Jacobite Uprisings and The Reformation .

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Stanley
Mills – Our Industrial Heritage.Part One . 1786 to 1813 . Why the Mill was built and why the Weavers played such a vital part in Scotland's changing society .( we acknowledge the information published by Historic
Scotland and Wikipedia and used in the
foregoing account of this unique treasure ) . Stanley is a town ( or perhaps a large village ) named
after Lady Amelia Stanley, the daughter
of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby. In the 1600s the area around Stanley was
part of the estate of Earls of Atholl and was also the location of Inverbervie
Castle. In 1659 the castle was renamed Stanley House in honour of the wedding
of John Murray, 1st Marquis of Atholl and Lady Stanley. When the village was
built in the 1700s it took the name Stanley after the nearby house.

No , it’s not quite in Strathearn but a close neighbour lying just north of the
Fair City that is Perth . The Stanley Mills were founded over 200 years ago by a group of Perth merchants with technical and fi…

Strowan Past And PresentThe old bridge of Strowan was demolished in the 1960s
and replaced with a modern structure about half a mile downstream . This
realigned the road from Monzievaird thus virtually isolating the old market
place of Strowan and the ancient kirk to the east . The name Strowan is derived from Saint Rowan who is reputed to have lived in this airt in the mid seventh century . He was a Celtic saint who is recorded as having been involved in the contentious debate of the time over the keeping of Easter . Rowan crossed swords with the formidable Fiaan , Bishop of Lindisfarne in this matter .

Strowan
House with the Strowan Cross clearly depicted about 1900 Old Strowan Bridge

New
Strowan Bridge The church has been in a ruinous state for many a long
year . This account written in an article penned in the 1880s could well have
been written in 2006 . The ruins of the
old Church or Chapel of Strowan surrounded by the kirkyard are near the
bridge . It had been a thatched one
store…

Retired part time lecturer at Perth College and former rugby correspondent to our local paper the Strathearn Herald .Former President and a Honorary Member of Crieff & Strathearn Rugby Club. Written 4 books on the local history of Strathearn .